Browsing by Subject "British & Irish Literature"

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Henry James: Ethnographer of American Women in Victorian Patriarchy

Halbert, Christine (2011)

This paper examines the social question: is 19th century women's identity socially determined or do 19th century women have the liberty to forge their own identities as they see fit? In order to answer this question, this ...
The End of the Age of Miracles: Substance and Accident in the English Renaissance

Tangney, John Richard (2009)

This dissertation argues that the 'realist' ontology implicit in Renaissance allegory is both Aristotelian and neoplatonic, stemming from the need to talk about transcendence in material terms in order to make it comprehensible ...